. "The geographical environment here is truly unique. No wonder it has become one of the largest and best naval bases in the Baltic Sea and even Germany!"

Prince Hirohito expressed his feelings on the lighthouse overlooking the Cornisburg Harbour.

Indeed, the Gulf of Cornezburg is located in the southeast of the Baltic Sea, and the Swedish coastline is not a necessary route for passing ships, but the fleet stationed here can quickly move out of the central Baltic Sea. As long as the fleet has sufficient strength, it will be enough to control the entire central Baltic Sea.

In terms of terrain alone, the Gulf of Cornegies is an almost completely enclosed narrow and long zone, about 80 kilometers long, 35 kilometers wide at its widest point, and only 10 kilometers narrow at its narrowest point. Two sandbars covered with pine forests, Cape Kursh and Cape Versin are natural barriers between the harbor and the Baltic Sea. There is only a narrow passage of more than a thousand meters wide for ships to enter and exit. There are strong groups of turrets on both sides of the passage, and the retractable anti-submarine nets, which make any ship or fleet attempting to forcibly enter the Gulf of Cornegies must think twice before moving.

There are two main ports in the Gulf of Cornegiesburg. One is the Port of Pilao at the entrance of the Gulf of Cornegiesburg. It has many deep-water berths. It is not only the base of the German Baltic Fleet, and it is also the location of the Pilao Fortress, Germany's leading coastal defense fortress. The other port is the Port of Cornegiesburg, located in the southwest of the city of Cornegiesburg. It is the shipbuilding center of the entire East Prussia and an extremely important commercial port. The port area of ​​Cornegiesburg Port is divided into the northern military zone and the southern civil zone. The Cornegiesburg shipyard, the port garrison and the airport are all in the northern military zone, the commercial port, and the maintenance dock of ordinary ships is located in the southern civil zone.

"Can we go there and have a look?"

Hirohito refers to the northern shipbuilding area of ​​the Port of Cornisburg.

After a low discussion, the naval head of Cornisburg, Major General Alexander Schkerz, commander of the port garrison, and Major General Dominic Lorenz, commander of the Baltic Fleet, agreed to the Japanese request for visit, but the famous Japanese entourage was not allowed to walk around the shipbuilding area.

Hirohito agreed to the conditions of the two German generals, but on the way to the shipbuilding area, he gave a look at the Japanese naval officers who were accompanying him. Cornisburg is a rising star in the German shipbuilding industry. Germany's earliest anti-submarine destroyers, the best-performing submarines and most aircraft carriers are from here. Intelligence personnel from various military powers all want to sneak into this dragon cave. Unfortunately, the entire Cornisburg area and even East Prussia have always been very cautious, and it is even more difficult to steal confidential technical information.

After half an hour of walking, Hirohito and his party led by the German side to the military zone in the northern part of the Port of Cornisburg. They saw that the military zone was protected by numerous barbed wire fences. Behind the barbed wire were lined with guard towers and watchtowers, and patrol troops carrying wolfdogs.

Before entering the military zone, Hirohito looked up at the three flagpoles at the door and roamed in the wind. One was the German flag in black, white and red. The other was the black vulture crusade, and the other was the German Empire's emperor flag—blue bottom, silver sword, gold shield. On the shield were helmets, cannons, eagles and dolphins. It was also the former Prince of East Prussia.

Walking forward along the straight and wide concrete avenue of the military zone, the group soon arrived at the shipbuilding area. Looking around, there were amazing numbers of docks built along the coast. On the east side were some small and medium-sized docks. Each dock had a built ship, some had just laid keels, and some had already formed hulls. Some were just small boats that were more than 2 meters high and less than 50 meters long. Some were large boats close to 3 meters high and 100 meters long, and even higher and longer were light ships such as destroyers, with a total of about 50 ships.

Here, Hirohito did not find what he wanted. Compared with Japanese shipyards, these docks were at best with a relatively uniform specification and a larger number. After walking a while, there were more workers and the docks were larger than those before. Most of the ships under construction were medium-sized ships 150 to 200 meters long, but it seemed that they were not just cruisers. There were about 20 docks, of which 80% were built, with only four and five empty spaces there.

Along the way, the German entourage had no intention of introducing it to the Japanese. They walked forward with their heads raised, while Hirohito and his entourage followed as slowly as possible.

The medium-sized dock is further west, and the color of the sea water is gradually deepening. The dock here is obviously larger, but the operating rate of the dock has dropped a lot. After walking for a long time, Hirohito saw three 10,000-ton ground ships under construction, and from the hull, it seems that they are all large cargo ships rather than battleships.

Hirohito counted carefully and found that there were 17 large shipyards here. In other words, if it was necessary and sufficient funds, manpower and material resources, 17 10,000-ton warships could be started at the same time.

After walking through these docks, the two German generals in front whispered to each other, and then asked a major to come back and tell the Japanese: "There is our aircraft carrier construction area in front!"

This sentence immediately made the Japanese visitors excited, but this excitement lasted only a few seconds and disappeared because of the empty boat platform ahead.

"Where is the aircraft carrier?" Hirohito's attendant even shouted.

The German major looked at him squintedly, "Don't you know the Washington Naval Treaty?"

The Japanese then suddenly realized that according to this international naval treaty, Germany could only have 5 aircraft carriers. The Super Duck Mother had been given to the Japanese Navy. Only Lisa and the Prince were completed before the war. The subsequent construction of Zeppelin, Tirpitz and Ruprecht were launched last year, in 1917. Although the three newly built Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers have not yet been officially put into service, they don’t have to stay in the harbor stupidly.

"It seems that the Germans have complied with the Navy Treaty!"

The Japanese attendant who asked just now said in a low voice beside Hirohito with a little embarrassed look.

Hirohito didn't agree with this, but he just continued to move forward with some disappointment. Although the Kemal incident caused a lot of controversy some time ago, when the Turkish government jumped out and announced that it was the aircraft carrier they ordered from Germany, the countries were speechless - according to the Washington Navy Treaty, the Turkish Navy had three aircraft carriers, but they had not built any of them so far. Although the Kemal's displacement was obviously "exceeded the standard", since it was launched, it was not easy for all countries to offend the Germans and Turks too much, so the coronation was left alone.

Before he walked out of the large dock area, Hirohito saw a row of curved green green green green painted from a distance. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that it should be a German submarine dock, but the Germans did not seem to plan to take them there to visit.

"Your Highness, please go here!"

When the greenhouses were still 1 kilometer away, the German naval major just now stretched out his left hand in front of the Japanese and signaled them to turn north.

"Why don't you go there?" Hirohito asked without hesitation.

The German major told them: "There is a fuel bank over there, nothing good to look at. And it's very dangerous!"

"Fuel Depot?" The attendant, who is less than thirty, has obviously been in the palace for a long time, and his expression and tone of speaking to non-royal personnel was very unkind.

The German major didn't mind either. He patiently explained: "Yes, the flammable and explosive fuel bank is full of heavy oil!"

The attendant turned around and looked at Hirohito, and Hirohito's eyes were also staring at the other side.

"Please!" The German major once again asked them to walk north.

In this case, Hirohito was not willing to force himself to go over to "visit", so he walked in the direction guided by the Germans with a stinking face. However, just after the large group of people turned a corner, two Japanese naval officers following behind pretended to swear while the Germans were not paying attention. In fact, they quietly left the team.

Hirohito and his party continued to walk forward. From the beginning to now, they have walked at least 5 kilometers. It is not a comfortable thing to blow the sea breeze in this winter. But the Japanese are worried that they will miss some important things when riding in a car, and the Germans are happy to let them get tired early, so no one stops the car.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, everyone came to a curved factory shed that was also gray but much larger. The Japanese were told that this was the carrier-based aircraft production workshop of the aircraft carrier and they could go in and visit.

At this time, the expressions on Hirohito and his servants finally sootheed a little. Under the leadership of a German technician who could speak Japanese, they couldn't wait to enter the workshop, while the two German generals and other German officers did not follow in. They were just standing outside the door to rest.

The Japanese couldn't care so much. As soon as they entered the workshop gate, the rows of planes and airplanes made their eyes light up. What made them even more happy was that just next to the aircraft production line, several technicians were discussing something around a table, and there were actually many technical drawings on the table!

German technicians enthusiastically introduced the situation here to this malicious Japanese tour group while walking. In fact, for the Japanese officers and soldiers who had studied on the German Super Duck Mom, that is, the Fengxiang, the two types of aircraft here are not unfamiliar. The biplane Seahawk fighter bomber and the biplane swordfish torpedo were the main force of the German aviation force's raid on Pascalovro, and it was also the most equipped aircraft on the German aircraft carrier in the war. However, the Japanese who had found the treasure did not know that these aircraft had become trainers in the German Navy to train new pilots. As for the more advanced new carrier-based aircraft, they probably only met on the battlefield.

After slowly wandering around the huge workshop, Hirohito's entourage deliberately pretended to be curious and squeezed around the German technicians, and used different languages ​​to trigger a small "confusion". Although the chaos quickly subsided, the Japanese also took the opportunity to take a few technical drawings. Such poor methods made their little leaders feel relieved for a while. However, when they brought the drawings back to the country and let the experts look at them, they would be sad to find that Japanese experts had already produced the same drawings by decomposing and studying several aircraft mechanisms on the Super Duck Mom.

When the Japanese walked out of the production workshop, the German officers waiting outside were chatting and smoking, but Hirohito's face quickly became gloomy because he saw a team of German soldiers walking towards him with his two "left behind" entourages.

At this time, everyone focused their attention on the team of soldiers, especially the two extremely embarrassed Japanese.

After communicating with the leading non-commissioned officer, General Schkerz walked to Hirohito, "Your Highness, your people were lost just now. Fortunately, our soldiers discovered them and sent them back in person! Please remind your entourage that those who followed us closely during the visit should not be lost!"

Hirohito didn't say anything, but his face looked very ugly. When the two embarrassing naval officers walked back with their heads down, Hirohito snorted coldly, and a look of guilt and sadness suddenly appeared in the eyes of the two men.

After this small farce, Hirohito was no longer in the mood to continue visiting, and the group just lowered their heads and walked forward. Three hours later, they finally transferred most of the northern military zone. After visiting the airship base of the Baltic Fleet, they found that the special train they had previously rode was waiting for them on the railroad tracks ahead.

"If Your Highness thinks you can end your visit here, please get on the bus. Next we will go to Pilao Port!" General Schkerz pointed to the train and said, "But if Your Highness wants to see more things, it is okay to continue to visit here!"

Hirohito shook his head and took the lead in boarding the train.

Just half an hour later, the train took them to the home port of the German Baltic Fleet. What surprised Hirohito and his party was that all the main ships of the Baltic Sea were docked at the pier and waiting for their inspection. Amid the rumbling cannons, Hirohito and his followers finally found some VIP feeling. After inspecting the Baltic Fleet, they were also allowed to enter the Pilao Fortress for a visit. This fortress built on the sandbar was much larger than people imagined. There were 3 main turrets and 9 sub-turrets on both sides of the channel, with hundreds of large and large caliber fortress cannons inside, but the Japanese also noticed that the defense here was not impeccable. On the one hand, many fortifications were strong but they had been a while. On the other hand, there were many anti-aircraft guns, machine guns and machine guns, but there were less than 20 real large caliber fortress cannons.

That night, Hirohito and his party stayed at the Royal Hotel in the center of Cornisburg. The top aristocratic suites and high-quality services drove away their fatigue. The prince fell asleep early. He decided to keep his energy and let him take a walk and take a look when visiting the plane design and manufacturing base the next day. As for his entourage, some of them fell asleep early, and most of them recorded what they saw and heard at the first time.
Chapter completed!